Audio Types

Unmixed and Mixed

Alive Drumming hosts both a set of sample unmixedSong Rhythm Tracks and also a user-contributed mixes user group at HearThisAt, the audio hosting service which provides great user and social facilities. Please contribute your own mixes to the Song Rhythm Tracks User Group at HearThisAt.

We have samples of

1/ Mixed: Showcase Tracks – These are multi-instrument performances where the mix includes Song Rhythm Tracks.

Hear this group of user-contributed mixes using Song Rhythm Tracks at HearThisAt

Audio Codec Formats

Various User Formats: Those from artists are usually supplied as MP3s and usually rehosted by Alive Drumming.

We also have some samples presented as YouTube videos. These videos show the App during playback. That’s not as engaging as most music videos but it allows a musician’s view of the App while playing along to Song Rhythm Tracks. If this is your intended use for the App, it might be of interest. These videos are at the bottom of this page.

Streaming and Downloadable

The bulk of the samples below can either be

Streamed, to quickly listen to as much as you want before moving on, or else,

Downloaded, so that you can retain the track and use it in your mix in the same way you can all Alive Drumming’s tracks acquired via the App.

Identifying Arrangements – Based on Song Form or Matching Popular Song

Matching Popular Song title – This is used on the YouTube videos, and

Song Form Arrangement – This is used on many of the audio files

Every arrangement can be used by more than a single song, so generally, this distinction is artificial.

Showcasing Tracks

Below are some tracks supplied by our commuity which include artists playing over Song Rhythm Tracks.

Please check out Alive Drumming’s sampleSong Rhythm Tracks below in their unedited state (these audio samples are different samples to the YouTube videos above). With the mobile App, there are millions available for selection, covering a variety of Song Forms and rhythms including the selection of instrumentation.

Problems with this Page?

Below the files are either encoded in .mp3 (MPEG 3) or .M4a (MPEG 4 audio) formats. The browser’s embedded play button may not work due to incompatibility between file formats and browser / operating system platform. However, the download link should always work. See this page for more technical information and selecting a compatible browser for HTML5 embedded audio.

Song Rhythm Tracks are best selected, managed and played using our dedicated mobile apps. The tracks below represent the quality of our audio but not the vast variety of rhythms and musical forms. Each of these tracks will fit any song that shares the same song form.

SongForm: 4-bar introduction, followed by 4 choruses of 32-bar A1A2 (16|16), with a 4-bar ending.

YouTube Videos

See the tracks playing on an iPhone on these YouTube video

Check out also our YouTube videos for these on our “Sample Song Rhythm Tracks” playlist. On our YouTube channel we suggest a song for each of the video tracks but, as the Song Rhythm Tracks do not contain harmony or melody, they actually fit any song that shares the same song form.